Notable NYC: 2/14–2/20
Saturday 2/14: Aziza Barnes, Sasha Fletcher, and Montana Ray are Poets with Attitude. Mellow Pages Library, 7:30 p.m., free. Bill Berkson and Matt Longobucco read poetry. Dia: Chelsea, 6:30 p.m.,…
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Find Me by Laura van den Berg
Anita Felicelli reviews Find Me by Laura van den Berg today in Rumpus Books.
Notable NYC: 2/7–2/13
Saturday 2/7: Omar Berrada, Huge Garcia Manriquez, Isabelle Garron, Jen Hofer, John Keene, Sarah Riggs, James Sherry, Stacy Szymaszek, Matvei Yankelevich and others celebrate Litmus Press. Southfirst, 6:30 p.m., free.…
This Week in Short Fiction
Some story collections drop with fireworks and great fanfare, while others make their entrance, it could be said, on tender feet. The latter is the case with the works of…
Notable NYC: 11/8–11/14
Saturday 11/8: Brooklyn Comic Arts Festival. Mt. Carmel Church, 11 a.m., free. Elizabeth Lopeman reads Trans Europe Express (November 2014) about an American au pair considering abandoning her host family.…
You Are What You Read
Not every book is a great work of literature, but that doesn’t mean literary authors don’t have fun reading some pulpy genre books. Over at Electric Literature, Amber Sparks confesses to…
Raised by Wolves
A story is different from an event . . . The event is what happens. A story is the mythology that rises from what happens. Often this mythology is where…
The Books That Don’t Make It
“For every book I publish,” a writing teacher once told me, “there’s one book I don’t.” Over at The Millions, Chloe Benjamin talks to five writers about the unpublished novels…
Crystal Eaters and Red Giants
Rumpus contributor Shane Jones‘s new novel, Crystal Eaters, is out this month from Two Dollar Radio. He’s been exchanging emails with Laura van den Berg about the new book, parenthood,…
Notable NYC: 5/3–5/9
Saturday 5/3: Joanna Fuhrman, Dan Magers, and Debora Kuan launch the Hyperallergic Poetry reading series. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 7:30 p.m., free. Melanie Neilson and Kate Zambreno join the Segue Series.…
“It’s a woman’s world”
Laura van den Berg talks about being weird, her latest collection The Isle of Youth, and writing tough female characters over at Guernica. I think some people are surprised at how…
Women Writing Weird Words
Somewhere between its Kmart and hysterical phases, literary realism got shaken up, when a group of young women writers began crafting a spectral brand of fantastical, strange fiction….Permeating the stories…